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  2. Carrier Global - Wikipedia

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    Carrier Global Corporation is an American multinational heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), refrigeration, and fire and security equipment corporation based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Carrier was founded in 1915 as an independent company manufacturing and distributing HVAC systems, and has since expanded to include ...

  3. Furnace (central heating) - Wikipedia

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    High efficiency condensing gas furnaces typically achieve between 90% and 98% AFUE. [3] A condensing gas furnace includes a sealed combustion area, combustion draft inducer and a secondary heat exchanger. The primary gain in efficiency for a condensing gas furnace, as compared to a mid-efficiency forced-air or forced-draft furnace, is the ...

  4. 1999 South Dakota Learjet crash - Wikipedia

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    In addition to Payne Stewart and three others, there were two pilots on board: The 42-year-old captain, Michael Kling, held an airline transport pilot certificate and type ratings for the Boeing 707, Boeing 737, and Learjet 35. He had Air Force experience flying the KC-135 and Boeing E-3 Sentry.

  5. Fluidized bed combustion - Wikipedia

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    FBC smoke tube boiler. Fluidized bed combustion (FBC) is a combustion technology used to burn solid fuels.. In its most basic form, fuel particles are suspended in a hot, bubbling fluidity bed of ash and other particulate materials (sand, limestone etc.) through which jets of air are blown to provide the oxygen required for combustion or gasification.

  6. Open-hearth furnace - Wikipedia

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    Open hearth furnace workers at the Zaporizhstal steel mill in Ukraine taking a steel sample, c. 2012 Tapping open-hearth furnace, VEB Rohrkombinat Riesa, East Germany, 1982. An open-hearth furnace or open hearth furnace is any of several kinds of industrial furnace in which excess carbon and other impurities are burnt out of pig iron to produce ...

  7. Metallurgical furnace - Wikipedia

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    A metallurgical furnace, often simply referred to as a furnace when the context is known, is an industrial furnace used to heat, melt, or otherwise process metals. Furnaces have been a central piece of equipment throughout the history of metallurgy ; processing metals with heat is even its own engineering specialty known as pyrometallurgy .

  8. Tube furnace - Wikipedia

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    A tube furnace is an electric heating device used to conduct syntheses and purifications of inorganic compounds and occasionally in organic synthesis. One possible design consists of a cylindrical cavity surrounded by heating coils that are embedded in a thermally insulating matrix.

  9. Furnace - Wikipedia

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    Furnace (central heating): a furnace, or a heater or boiler, used to generate heat for buildings; Boiler, used to heat water; also called a furnace in American English when used for heating and hot water in a building; Jetstream furnace or Tempest boiler, a design of wood-fired water heater